Hi All,
I'm relatively a newbie as well and had been lurking in the forums reading stuff as much as I can. I do most of my caching around Northern San Diego area.
I geocache mostly with my 6 year old son who is as hooked as I am. The wife approves of it just to get me and my son off the TV, video games and computer at home. I do solo for really steep hills since I think it would be tough for my 6 year old - hopefully sooner he can go with me on high mountains around here.
I do have a few hides. I wanted to put out small to big containers for the likes of my Son. It's not really fun for them to see nano/micro/log only caches in which I'm the only one to sign. He's really excited to see big containers and hopefully get a good variety of swag on it.
To-date,
I have around 147 founds and a few DNFs. These are mostly in San Diego but a few in Las Vegas, NV on a recent trip there. I just did a 30 found caches in one day last week - whew that was fun!
I have 5 active caches (as the Cache Owner). A new one pending review today. Feedback from seasoned/veterans geocachers were favorable so far on my hides. My favorite own hide so far is the GC3NP22 - 'BOC BP's Urban Forest' in Balboa Park near San Diego Zoo since this is my biggest one.
ciao